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. This is an archive, please visit http://pressthink.org for current posts. Study Journalism at NYU Jay Rosen's bio E-mail Introduction to this blog Q & A about the blog's POV NewAssignment.Net Follow JR on Twitter The Citizens Agenda in Campaign Coverage The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization Objectivity as a Form of Persuasion: A Few Notes for Marcus Brauchli The Politico Opens the Kimono. And then Pretends it Never Happened. Fixing The Ideology Problem in Our Political Press: A Reply to The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: On the Actual Ideology of the American Press What CNN Should Do With Itself in Prime-Time How the Backchannel Has Changed the Game for Conference Panelists News Without the Narrative Needed to Make Sense of the News: What I Will Say at South by Southwest Explaining The Local: East Village, NYU's Collaboration with the New York Times The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User Introducing the new Huffington Post Investigative Fund (And My Own Role in It) Rosen's Flying Seminar In The Future of News It Took 23 Years, But I Finally Got to Give My View of the National Press on National Television August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 March 2010 February 2010 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 March 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 Like ? More from the same pen: Read about Jay Rosen's book, What Are Journalists For? Excerpt from Chapter One of What Are Journalists For? "As Democracy Goes, So Goes the Press." Essay in Columbia Journalism Review on the changing terms of authority in the press, brought on in part by the blog's individual--and interactive--style of journalism. It argues that, after Jayson Blair, authority is not the same at the New York Times, either. "Web Users Open the Gates." My take on ten years of Internet journalism, at Washingtonpost.com Read: Q & As Jay Rosen, interviewed about his work and ideas by journalist Richard Poynder Achtung! Interview in German with a leading German newspaper about the future of newspapers and the Net. Audio: Have a Listen Listen to an audio interview with Jay Rosen conducted by journalist Christopher Lydon, October 2003. It's about the transformation of the journalism world by the Web. Five years later, Chris Lydon interviews Jay Rosen again on "the transformation." (March 2008, 71 minutes.) Interview with host Brooke Gladstone on NPR's "On the Media." (Dec. 2003) Listen here. Presentation to the Berkman Center at Harvard University on open source journalism and NewAssignment.Net. Downloadable mp3, 70 minutes, with Q and A. Nov. 2006. Video: Have A Look Half hour video interview with Robert Mills of the American Microphone series. On blogging, journalism, NewAssignment.Net and distributed reporting. Jay Rosen explains the Web's "ethic of the link" in this four-minute YouTube clip. "The Web is people." Jay Rosen speaking on the origins of the World Wide Web. (2:38) One hour video Q & A on why the press is "between business models" (June 2008) Recommended by : Town square for press critics, industry observers, and participants in the news machine: Romenesko, published by the Poynter Institute. Town square for weblogs: InstaPundit from Glenn Reynolds, who is an original. Very busy. Very good. To the Right, but not in all things. A good place to find voices in diaolgue with each other and the news. Town square for the online Left. The Daily Kos. Huge traffic. The comments section can be highly informative. One of the most successful communities on the Net. Rants, links, blog news, and breaking wisdom from Jeff Jarvis, former editor, magazine launcher, TV critic, now a J-professor at CUNY. Always on top of new media things. Prolific, fast, frequently dead on, and a pal of mine. Eschaton by Atrios (pen name of Duncan B;ack) is one of the most well established political weblogs, with big traffic and very active comment threads. Left-liberal. Terry Teachout is a cultural critic coming from the Right at his weblog, About Last Night. Elegantly written and designed. Plus he has lots to say about art and culture today. Dave Winer is the software wiz who wrote the program that created the modern weblog. He's also one of the best practicioners of the form. Scripting News is said to be the oldest living weblog. Read it over time and find out why it's one of the best. If someone were to ask me, "what's the right way to do a weblog?" I would point them to Doc Searls, a tech writer and sage who has been doing it right for a long time. Ed Cone writes one of the most useful weblogs by a journalist. He keeps track of the Internet's influence on politics, as well developments in his native North Carolina. Always on top of things. Rebecca's Pocket by Rebecca Blood is a weblog by an exemplary practitioner of the form, who has also written some critically important essays on its history and development, and a handbook on how to blog. Dan Gillmor used to be the tech columnist and blogger for the San Jose Mercury News. He now heads a center for citizen media. This is his blog about it. A former senior editor at Pantheon, Tom Englehardt solicits and edits commentary pieces that he publishes in blog form at TomDispatches. High-quality political writing and cultural analysis. Chris Nolan's Spot On is political writing at a high level from Nolan and her band of left-to-right contributors. Her notion of blogger as a "stand alone journalist" is a key concept; and Nolan is an exemplar of it. Barista of Bloomfield Avenue is journalist Debbie Galant's nifty experiment in hyper-local blogging in several New Jersey towns. Hers is one to watch if there's to be a future for the weblog as news medium. The Editor's Log, by John Robinson, is the only real life honest-to-goodness weblog by a newspaper's top editor. Robinson is the blogging boss of the Greensboro News-Record and he knows what he's doing. Fishbowl DC is about the world of Washington journalism. Gossip, controversies, rituals, personalities-- and criticism. Good way to keep track of the press tribe in DC PJ Net Today is written by Leonard Witt and colleagues. It's the weblog of the Public Journalisn Network (I am a founding member of that group) and it follows developments in citizen-centered journalism. Here's Simon Waldman's blog. He's the Director of Digital Publishing for The Guardian in the UK, the world's most Web-savvy newspaper. What he says counts. Novelist, columnist, NPR commentator, Iraq War vet, Colonel in the Army Reserve, with a PhD in literature. How many bloggers are there like that? One: Austin Bay. Betsy Newmark's weblog she describes as "comments and Links from a history and civics teacher in Raleigh, NC." An intelligent and newsy guide to blogs on the Right side of the sphere. I go there to get links and comment, like the teacher said. Rhetoric is language working to persuade. Professor Andrew Cline's Rhetorica shows what a good lens this is on politics and the press. Davos Newbies is a "year-round Davos of the mind," written from London by Lance Knobel. He has a cosmopolitan sensibility and a sharp eye for things on the Web that are jus...